Best hardware to run Phi-3 Medium (14B)
The minimum self-hostable option and a comfortable recommended build for Phi-3 Medium (14B), plus the top devices that run it well.
Minimum
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GBFits at Q4_K_M (~9GB) but limited bandwidth makes token generation slow for a 14B model.
Recommended
Supermicro 8x H100 SuperServerFits at FP16 (~28GB) with ~535.2GB headroom — about 20 concurrent instances.
Top devices that run it well
- Supermicro 8x H100 SuperServerSupermicro · AI Servers
Fits at FP16 (~28GB) with ~535.2GB headroom — about 20 concurrent instances.
FP16 · ~28GBRuns well - Dell PowerEdge XE9680Dell · AI Servers
Fits at FP16 (~28GB) with ~535.2GB headroom — about 20 concurrent instances.
FP16 · ~28GBRuns well - AMD Instinct MI300XAMD · Datacenter GPUs
Fits at FP16 (~28GB) with ~141GB headroom — about 6 concurrent instances.
FP16 · ~28GBRuns well - NVIDIA H200 (141GB)NVIDIA · Datacenter GPUs
Fits at FP16 (~28GB) with ~96.1GB headroom — about 4 concurrent instances.
FP16 · ~28GBRuns well - Cloud H200 141GB (profile)Cloud · Cloud GPU Profiles
Fits at FP16 (~28GB) with ~96.1GB headroom — about 4 concurrent instances.
FP16 · ~28GBRuns well - NVIDIA H100 (80GB)NVIDIA · Datacenter GPUs
Fits at FP16 (~28GB) with ~42.4GB headroom — about 2 concurrent instances.
FP16 · ~28GBRuns well
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